The Takacs Quartet returns to Jordan Hall on Friday night with Haydn, Schubert, and Shostakovich; the Lydian Quartet on Saturday night plays music by Mozart and Beethoven at Brandeis’s Slosberg Music Center; and on Sunday afternoon in Jordan Hall, the Boston Symphony Chamber Players offer works by Carter and Brahms alongside Beethoven’s “Grosse Fuge.”
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NEW MUSIC

Friday night at Tsai Performance Center, Richard Pittman and Boston Musica Viva give the premiere of “Verbiage” by Curtis Hughes alongside music by William Kraft and Schoenberg. Sound Icon plays music of Philippe Leroux Saturday night at the Fenway Center. www.bmv.org; www.soundicon.org.